Installation instructions are available for installing the pre-built binaries for all major platforms.
Even with the pre-built binary, developers power-users can run their own Python scripts with the provided interpreter. See the note in the Headless Mode documentation for details.Instruction on setting-up a development environment can be found in our contributing guidelines in our main repository.
Furthermore, there are repositories for a comprehensive build system for Linux, Mac, and Windows, based on the conda/mamba and conda-build tools.